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Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?
- From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo dot Graziosi at roma1 dot infn dot it>
- To: Harald Joerg <harald dot joerg at fujitsu-siemens dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:26:26 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Harald Joerg wrote:
> Angelo Graziosi <Angelo.Graziosi@roma1.infn.it> writes:
>
> > The problem is that after "rebaseall" Emacs does not works, it takes
> > all the CPU and its window does not appear so that one can only kill
> > its process.
> >
> > After the new release of rebase-2.4-1, the problem remains
> >
> > BUT
> >
> > this time reinstalling, with "setup", ONLY the
> > package libncurses7 (whose current release is 5.3-4),
> > EMACS works again!
> >
>
> Actually, I don't have an idea if this is a valid procedure. And to
> be honest, at this moment I don't even care.
>
> But today I ran into the same problem - and your trick just works for
> me, too.
>
> Many many thanks for posting this workaround. I guess it took you
> some hours to detect libncurses7 as a key component, but you certainly
> saved me the pain to try to re-install all cygwin.
>
Even using the snapshots, the problem remains and every time one needs to
rebase all one must reinstall libncurses7-5.3-4 if one wants Emacs to
work.
In any case I am on the alert to see what cause that.
Best regards,
Angelo.
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